BCHE 440 Presentations
Fall Semester 2006
Come hear what our majors are interested in.
Class meets in CB 201 Tuesday mornings at 11:45-12:35.

Date Oct. 3

Name Murphy Hollie
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Role of p73 in Regulating Human Caspase-1 Gene Transcription Induced by Interferon-
g and Cisplatin. Nishant Jain, Sanjeev Gupta, Ch. Sudhakar, Vegesna Radha, and Ghanshyam Swarup. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280, 36664-36673 (2005)

Name Jenifer Fleming
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Cytosolic Prion Protein Is Not Toxic and Protects against Bax-mediated Cell Death in Human Primary Neurons. Xavier Roucou, Qi Guo, Yan Zhang, Cynthia G. Goodyer, and Andrea C. LeBlanc. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 278, No. 42, Issue of October 17, pp. 40877-40881, 2003.

Date Oct. 10 Name Eric Medina
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Direct demonstration of an Anti-Inflammatory effect of Simvastatin in subjects with the Metabolic Syndrome. Sridevi Devaraj, Emily Chan, Ishwarlal Jialal

Name Chris Cook
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The Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Fluoxetine Reduces SexSteroid-Related Aggression in Female Rats: An Animal Model of Premenstrual Irritability?  Hoi-Por Ho., Marie Olsson Lars Westberg, Jonas Melke., and Elias Eriksson Neuropsychopharmacology 24:502-510, 2001.
Date Oct. 17 Name Hannah Dunn
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Caffeine intake induces an alteration in human neutrophil A2A adenosine receptors. Varani, Portaluppi, Gessi, Merighi, Vincenzi, Cattabriga, Dalpiaz, Bortolotti, Belardinelli, and Borea. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 62, 2350-2358 (2005).

Name Mantissa Johnston
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A Small C-Terminal Sequence of Aurora B is Responsible for Localization and Function. Scrittori, Skoufias, Hans, Gerson, Sassone-Corsi, Dimitrob, and Margolis. Molecular Biology of the Cell 16, 292-305 (2005).
Date Oct. 24 Name Savannah Benally
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Increase in putrescine, amine oxidase, and acrolein in plasma of renal failure patients. Kaori, Keiko, Shahana, Shiro, Yasubumi, Noriyoshi, and Kazuei. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 305, 143-149 (2003).

Name Javier Fierro
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The DinI Protein Stabilizes RecA Protein Filaments. Shelly L. Lusetti, Oleg N. Voloshin, Ross B. Inman, R. Daniel Camerini-Otero, and Michael M. Cox. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 30037-30046 (2004).
Date Oct. 31 Name Si Xu
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DNA microarray analyses of the long-term adaptive response of Escherichia coli to acetate and propionate. Polen, Rittmann, Wendisch, and Sahm. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 69, No. 3, Mar. 2003, p. 1759-1774.

Name Isaac Rhodes
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The Escherichia coli baby cell column: a novel cell synchronization method provides new insight into the bacterial cell cycle. Bates D, Epstein J, Boye E, Fahrner K, Berg H, Kleckner N. Mol Microbiol. 2005 Jul;57(2):380-91.
Date Nov. 7 Name Sandra Camarillo
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Gene expression profiling of tumours derived from rasV12/E1A-transformed mouse embryonic fibroblasts to identify genes required for tumour development. Sophie Vasseur, Cédric Malicet, Ezequiel L Calvo, Jean Charles Dagorn and Juan L Iovanna. Molecular Cancer (2005), 4:4 doi:10.1186/1476-4598-4-4.

Name Marissa Martinez
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Inhibition of PPARg2 Gene Expression by the HIF-1-Regulated Gene DEC1/Stra13 A Mechanism for Regulation of Adipogenesis by Hypoxia. Yun, Maecker, Johnson, Giaccia. Developmental Cell 3, 331-341 (2004).
Date Nov.14 Name Virginia Tellez
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Detection and Quantification of Age-related Point Mutation A189G in the Human Mitochondrial DNA. Catherine The`ves, Ph.D.; Christine Keyser-Tracqui, Ph.D.; Eric Crube´zy, M.D., Ph.D.; Jean-Pierre Salles, M.D., Ph.D.; Bertrand Ludes, M.D., Ph.D.; and Norbert Telmon, M.D., Ph.D.  Journal of Forensic Science, Vol. 51, No. 4 (July 2006).

Name Summer Jacquez
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Introduction of mutations into the non-structural genes or 3’ untranslated region of an attenuated dengue virus type 4 vaccine candidate further decreases replication in rhesus monkeys while retaining protective immunity.  Kathryn A Hanley, Luella R. Manlucu, Gracielle G. Manipon, Christopher T. Hanson, Stephen S. Whitehead, Brian R. Murphy, Joseph E. Blaney, Jr.  Vaccine 22, 3440-3448 (2004).
Date Nov.28 Name Marie Romero
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Application of DNA Microarrays to Study the Evolutionary Genomics of Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.  Stewart J. Hinchliffe, Karen E. Isherwood, Richard A. Stabler, Michael B. Prentice, Alexander Rakin, Richard A. Nichols, Petra C.F. Oyston, Jason Hinds, Richard W. Titball, and Brenda W. Wren.  Genome Research 13, 2018-2029 (2003).

Name Diana Powers
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Telomere Dysfunction: A Potential Cancer Predisposition Factor Xifeng Wu, Christopher I. Amos, Yong Zhu, Hua Zhao, Barton H. Grossman, Jerry W. Shay, Sherry Luo, Waun Ki Hong, Margaret R. Spitz. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 94, 1211-1218 (2003).
Date Dec. 5 Name Leilani Rapp
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Targeting Heat Shock Proteins on Cancer Cells:  Selection, Characterization, and Cell-Penetrating Properties of a Peptide GRP78 Ligand.  Youngsoo, Lilo, Steiniger, Liu, Anichini, Mortarini, Kaufmann, Zhou, Habermann, and Janda.  Biochemistry 45, 9434-9444 (2006).

Name Adam Pina
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Sobo, a Recently Amplified Satellite Repeat of Potato, and Its Implications for the Origin of Tandemly Repeated Sequences.  Ahmet L. Tek, Junqi Song, Jiri Macas, and Jiming Jiang.  Genetics 170(3), 1231–1238 (2005).
Date Dec. 12

Name Patricia Campbell
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Structural Insights into the Interaction between Prion Protein and Nucleic Acid  Lima, L.M.T.R., Cordeiro, Y., Tinoco, L.W., Marques, A.F., Oliveira, C.L.P., Sampath, S., Kodali, R., Choi, G., Foguel, D., Torriani, I., Caughey, B., and Silva, J.L.  Biochemistry, 45, 30, 9180 - 9187, 2006.

Name Kenneth Dunn
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Channel-Opening Kinetics of GluR6 Kainate Receptor.  Gang Li, Robert E Oswald, and Li Niu.  Biochemistry 2003, 42, 12367-12375
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Name Levi Maston
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Siderocalin (Lcn 2) Also Binds Carboxymycobactins, Potentially Defending against Mycobacterial Infections through Iron Sequestration  Margaret A. Holmes, Wendy Paulsene, Xu Jide, Colin Ratledge, and Roland K. Strong,  Structure, Vol. 13, 29–41, January, 2005.